Leisure / Tony Blackshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackshaw, Tony, 1960- author.

Series:

Key Ideas

Key Ideas ; v.v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leisure.

Recreation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, c2010.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure. Beginning with a discussion of expressions in classical thought, etymological definitions and key leisure studies concepts, Blackshaw suggests that the idea abounds with ambivalence, which is unlikely ever to be resolved. After analyzing the rise and fall of modern leisure patterns, the emphasis shifts from the historical to the sociological and the author identifies and critically discusses the key modernist and postmodernist perspectives. Drawing on the i

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I FOUNDATIONS; 1 THE IDEA OF LEISURE; 2 THE USES OF LEISURE: THREE PERSPECTIVES; Part II LEISURE IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT; 3 THE ANTECEDENTS OF MODERN LEISURE; 4 ANALYSING LEISURE AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON; 5 LEISURE IN THE POSTMODERN IMAGINATION; Part III TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIQUID LEISURE; INTRODUCTION; 6 LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION: MCDONALDIZATION OR IKEAIZATION?; 7 THE AMBIVALENCE OF LEISURE; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-14676-4

1-135-14677-2

1-282-57005-6

9786612570056

0-203-85595-7

9780203855959

OCLC:

609856091